President — United States of America

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The president oversees the federal executive branch, approves new laws, submits a budget each year to Congress, leads U.S. foreign policy, and is the commander in chief of the armed forces.

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Events

What will California’s role be in the primary and general elections for president? What are the issues and races that matter most to California voters? Why does the 2016 election matter to you? On Tuesday, May 17, Larry Mantle (host of KPCC’s “AirTalk”) and Scott Shafer (senior editor of KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk) will moderate a town hall featuring a panel of political analysts and insiders: University of California, Berkeley’s Lisa Garcia Bedolla, the Field Poll’s Mark DiCamillo, RNC National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon and Mindy Romero of the California Civic Engagement Project. We’ll ask our experts to analyze some of the major campaign storylines and issues before fielding questions from audience members. The event is part of California Counts, a collaboration among KPCC, KQED, KPBS and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election season.

Stop by our mobile recording booth before or after the town hall to share your election-related thoughts. Contribute to the in-person conversation and on-air dialogue by letting us know why you’re voting and why you think others should, too.

Education

Biography

Dr. Jill Stein was the Green Party’s 2012 candidate for President. She holds the current record for most votes ever received by a woman candidate for President of the United States in the general election. She is a mother, an organizer, physician, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. She has helped lead initiatives to fight environmental racism and injustice, to promote healthy communities, to strengthen local green economies and to revitalize democracy. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, green jobs, and the cleanup of incinerators, coal plants, and toxic threats. She was a principal organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace over Profit.

As a practicing physician, Jill became aware of the links between toxic exposures and illness emerging in the 1990s. She began to fight for a healthy environment as a human right, assisting non profits, community groups and Native Americans combating environmental injustice and racism in dangerous exposures like lead and mercury in air and water pollution, incinerators and land fills, toxic waste sites and more. She helped lead the fight to clean up the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts, raising the bar nationally to a cleaner standard for coal plants. She helped close a toxic medical waste incinerator in Lawrence, MA, one of the poorest communities in New England. She played a key role in rewriting the Massachusetts fish advisories to better protect women and children, Native Americans and immigrants from mercury contamination. She also helped preserve the moratorium on new toxic trash incinerators in Massachusetts.

Having witnessed the power of lobbyists and campaign contributions to block health, environmental and worker protections, Jill became an advocate for campaign finance reform, and worked to help pass the Clean Election Law by voter referendum. This law was passed by a 2-1 margin, but was later repealed by the overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts Legislature on an unrecorded voice vote. This sabotage of campaign finance reform by the Democratic Party was a pivotal event in Jill's political development, confirming her growing allegiance to the Green Party.

In 2002 Jill was recruited by Green-Rainbow Party activists to run for Governor of Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, beginning her first foray into electoral politics. Many observers credited her with being the best informed and most credible candidate in the race.

She has twice been elected to town meeting in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is the founder and past co-chair of a local recycling committee appointed by the Lexington Board of Selectmen.

In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that fought for the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, environmental protection, labor rights, and grassroots democracy.

Jill represented the Green-Rainbow Party in two additional races – one for State Representative in 2004 where she finished second, ahead of the Republican. In 2006 she ran for Secretary of State receiving over 350,000 votes – representing one of the greatest vote total ever for a Green-Rainbow candidate.

In 2008, Jill helped lead the "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative to move subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to create green jobs. The measure won over 81 per cent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.

Jill received several awards for health and environmental protection including: Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard" Award, the Children's Health Hero" Award, and the Toxic Action Center's Citizen Award. Jill has appeared as an environmental health expert on the Today Show, 20/20, Fox News, and other programs. She also served on the board of directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility.

She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging, published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide as a community tool in the fight for health and the environment. The reports connect the dots between human health, social justice, a healthy environment and green economies.

Jill was born in Chicago and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. She lives in Lexington with her husband, Richard Rohrer, also a physician. They have two grown sons in medical school and residency training.

Who gave money to this candidate?

Contributions

Total money raised: $10,022,558

Top contributors that gave money to support the candidate, by organization:

1

Employees of Google

$42,213

2

Employees of Amazon.com

$13,966

3

Employees of United States Department of Defense

$11,479

4

Employees of Kaiser Permanente

$11,295

5

Employees of Apple

$8,207

More information about contributions

By State:

California 29.69%

New York 10.17%

Washington 6.11%

Massachusetts 6.06%

Other 47.98%

29.69%10.17%47.98%

By Size:

Large contributions (27.66%)

Small contributions (72.34%)

27.66%72.34%

By Type:

From organizations (0.04%)

From individuals (99.96%)

99.96%

Source: MapLight analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission.

Political Beliefs

Political Philosophy

Power to the People Plan

Summary

My Power to the People Plan creates deep system change, moving from the greed and exploitation of corporate capitalism to a human-centered economy that puts people, planet and peace over profit. It offers direct answers to the economic, social, and ecological crises brought on by both corporate political parties. And it empowers the American people to fix our broken political system and make real the promise of democracy. This plan will end unemployment and poverty; avert climate catastrophe; build a sustainable, just economy; and recognize the dignity and human rights of everyone in our society and our world. The power to create this new world is not in our hopes, it’s not in our dreams - it’s in our hands.

A Green New Deal:

Create millions of jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, and conservation.

Jobs as a Right:

Create living-wage jobs for every American who needs work, replacing unemployment offices with employment offices. Advance workers rights to form unions, achieve workplace democracy, and keep a fair share of the wealth they create.

End Poverty:

Guarantee economic human rights, including access to food, water, housing, and utilities, with effective anti-poverty programs to ensure every American a life of dignity.

Health Care as a Right:

Establish an improved “Medicare For All” single-payer public health insurance program to provide everyone with quality health care, at huge savings.

Education as a Right:

Abolish student debt to free a generation of Americans from debt servitude. Guarantee tuition-free, world-class public education from pre-school through university. End high stakes testing and public school privatization.

A Just Economy:

Set a $15/hour federal minimum wage. Break up “too-big-to-fail” banks and democratize the Federal Reserve. Reject gentrification as a model of economic development. Support development of worker and community cooperatives and small businesses. Make Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Create democratically run public banks and utilities. Replace corporate trade agreements with fair trade agreements.

Protect Mother Earth:

Lead on a global treaty to halt climate change. End destructive energy extraction: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, and uranium mines. Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators. Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe. Protect the rights of future generations.

Peace and Human Rights:

Establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights. End the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least 50% and close the 700+ foreign military bases that are turning our republic into a bankrupt empire. Stop U.S. support and arms sales to human rights abusers, and lead on global nuclear disarmament.

Biography

Darryl Cherney was born in New York City where he was a child actor. For 20 years he has been an activist, topical singer-songwriter and organizer in Humboldt County California. He helped spearhead the successful campaign to protect the redwoods, including Headwaters Forests, now a national preserve. As creator and president of Environmentally Sound Promotions, the non-profit organization, he has produced five albums of his original songs dedicated to environmental protection. He also produced Judi Bari?s spoken word CD, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, and the benefit compilation, If a Tree Falls.

He has organized hundreds of rallies and events, attracting national press coverage on behalf of forest protection and civil rights. He was co-founder of Redwood Summer 1990 with Judi Bari and was car-bombed alongside her that year and falsely arrested by the FBI and Oakland Police. He and Bari (who passed in 1997) sued the authorities and won a $4.4 million jury award in federal court in 2002 for First and Fourth Amendment violations of the Constitution. He broke the story on Julia Butterfly's tree-sit, and has appeared in media outlets such as Donahue, Prime Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. Darryl has worked on environmental litigation and lobbied in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. He joined with Judi Bari to create the Redwood Summer 1990 campaign as well as an alliance between timber workers and environmentalists. He is a founding member of the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment. Darryl is the inaugural winner of the Edward Abbey Deep Ecologist of the Year Award given by the Fund for Wild Nature in 1989; and the Sempervirens Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) of Garberville, California in 2012.

Cherney has been a member of the Green Party since 1991. He held public office between 2006 and 2010 on the Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare District. He ran for U.S. House of Representatives in the Democratic primary in 1991. He is the father of a 4 year old daughter and considers it his greatest accomplishment.

Political Beliefs

The most important quality in a President is the ability to inspire and lead. We require someone who knows that we have fallen over the precipice and are grasping for a branch to hold on to. I co-organized the campaigns that saved Headwaters Redwood Forest and won $4 million from the FBI for violations of free speech. I’m a songwriter who knows the value of arts and humor. My spirituality honors Mother Earth.

All the issues are interconnected: protecting children, climate change, a global living wage, prosecuting criminal banks, universal health care, saving the post office, lowering the voting age to 16, supporting labor, converting the police into a peace force, women’s rights, normalizing cannabis, ending mass incarceration, enforcing civil rights and equal opportunity, Honoring Native American treaties, embracing immigrants, lowering taxes, ending war, prosecuting crimes against humanity, preserving water, fostering community gardens, creating free nationwide public campgrounds, ending fossil fuel use, building a solar nation, and creating jobs cleaning up our world. To do this we must recognize that we are all related and interdependent. We need each other.

My young daughter has given me a vision for the future and has saved the world for me. Can the Green Party win? Anything can happen!

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My Top 3 Priorities

Our major initiatives are policy proposals designed to enact our three principle foundation documents.Ending “White Privilege and White Supremacy", within our national, state and local charter's.

Our campaign is focused on an issue within the party which she’d become aware of: de-Segregating the party through "browning."

Teaching our citizens about the two features that contributed to the collapse of advanced civilizations in the past: the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity, and the economic stratification of society.

Education

California State University at Long Beach — B.S., criminal justice (2005)

California State University at Long Beach — B.A., black studies (1985)

Community Activities

12th Black Female to seek President of the US nomination, Green Party (2016–2016)

One of six women seeking presidential nomination , Green Party (2016–2016)

Committee Appointments & Memberships, California and National Green Party (2002–2008)

Second African American Female to make a bid for Vice President nomination, Green Party (2008–2008)

Co-Founder, Green Party Black Caucus (2002–2002)

Biography

From age 18 -she registered to vote as a democratic only supporting environmentally conscience, progressive, liberals in the party. She voted for former US Vice President Al Gore presidential bid in 2000. It was his and DNC failure to count voters in the state of Florida in that pushed her out of "his" party into “we” GP! She has been a card carrying Green Party (GP) member since March 2001. Ms Moyowasifza-Curry objective in joining the Green Party was and is about building a permanent third political party in the United States of America that is neither funded nor controlled by corporations and corporate interests. For the past 15 years she has worked within the Green Party of the United States at the local, state, national & international arena to emphasize a direct action strategy and a tactical plan within the current traditional electoral political system that is geared toward children, youth, women, peoples of color, immigrants, independents and progressives in a clear and measurable manner. In 2008 she sought to be the Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee as a direct method to set up a national leadership training program for People of Color (PoC) to ensure "We Greens" would be equipped and had a solid line of PoC candidates to lead the our nation long term. She from day one of joining knew de-Segregate our party by "browning" given that by the end of this century our nation won’t be any longer be a majority European.

As an example of her leadership, former Congress Woman Cynthia McKinney on September 10, in a letter to the Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United States, stated she would not seek the Green Party nomination for president. It’s Ms Moyowasifza-Curry who orchestrated and supported Ms. Kinney’s return as a GP POTUS hopeful by setting up a fundraising and exploratory visit to California. Thus in mid-October, McKinney filed with the FEC. She formally announced her candidacy with a video on her website and on YouTube on December 16, 2007. Ms Moyowasifza Curry was the first Campaign Manager for McKinney/ Clemente 2008.

She has successfully identified, encouraged and supported People of Color Green Party VP 2016 hopefuls, we could ensure they would be equipped to run and lead our national political party. To continue this effort, during her current nationwide campaign tours she have been conducting recruitment and candidate trainings. Both her campaign have been focused on ensuring every registered Green Party member is an effective instrument of change. She see “We Greens” as the key individuals on links to create a local, regional, state, national and international “change network” that will move our nation and our world. Further, that “We Greens, can start the need for permanent structural changes in and for our nation over the next 60 years before the United States turns 300 years old on July 4th, 2076.

Political Beliefs

Born January 1, 1962 in Los Angeles, California to Mr Maybe “Sunny” Curry and Mrs. Annie Maude Curry-Locke didn’t put her name on the birth certificate ever. As a female of African and Native descent, Ms. Ayaape Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry has been created and crafted from our nation’s civil rights movement, the people who laid their bodies on the line in the movement are a significant part of her life work and did inspire the professional paths she has taken. Her relationship with and exposure to her African heritage started with her being raised in a Pan-African family that took up residence in the solid village community of South Central Los Angeles, California. Her political, civic and social education started pre birth given her families strong involvement in ensuring justice and peace prevail in their villages (Pueblo Dio Rio Housing Projects, South Central Los Angeles, CA, Crosby, MS., Little Rock, AR and Seattle, WA). Having serious Black connect in four “hometowns” location’s she grow up mindful of her personal, family and our human species origins in Africa. These family members practiced “Abrahamic religions” (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) as will African traditional religion that refer to the indigenous or autochthonous religions of the African peoples. Her basic of spirituality developed given the wide breath of concepts idea’s shared she had a broad concept with room for many perspectives. Includes a sense of connection to something bigger than us which involves her searching for meaning of her life and asking questions. As such a universal human experience—something that touches us all she was drawn to nature and truth. She volunteer to do the yard and garden work, help cut up vegetables growing help with family pet’s. Her love of the planet made her read, ask question and research. Early on in her life she know

I endorse the Green Party platform initiatives regarding the environment, the ending of war, the maldistribution of income and wealth, the suppression of people of color. mass incarcerations and the like.

Experience

Experience

Profession:Political Science Professor and Author

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina (not availa–current)

Education

Indiana University — PhD (1972)

Northwestern University Law School — J.D. (1965)

Northwestern University — B.A. (1962)

Biography

I am a graduate of Northwestern University(1962), Northwestern University Law School (1965), and the Ph. D. program in political science at Indiana University (1972). I have been a member of the academy, teaching political science, for a half century, most of that time in the Political Science Department at the University of South Carolina. I have lectured throughout the world, meeting with such figures as Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, and other significant political actors. I was a visiting professor at Bei Da (the University of Peking) in 1994 and 1997. I am the author of nine single-authored, non-edited books on American government, constitutional law, and political theory.

In 1980, I took Leave Without Pay and entered the South Carolina Democratic Senatorial primary, opposing Ernest "Fritz" Hollings. I recommended that the 1987 bicentennial of the Constitution be used as a time for reflection and recommendations regarding our 18th century constitutional order. My campaign was covered in The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, and other journals and led to the formation of The Committee on Constitutional System, co-chaired by former counsel to the president Lloyd Cutler, former Eisenhower and Kennedy cabinet member C. Douglas Dillon, and Senator Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS). Prominent members included Jim Sundquist at Brookings, James MacGregor Burns from Williams College, former Senator Bill Fulbright, and soon-to-be president of Stanford University Gerhard Casper, with whom I still communicate. In 1984, I entered the New Hampshire and other selected primaries, holding twenty-two forums at schools like M.I.T., with Lester Thurow on the panel, and other universities for the purpose of raising awareness of America's gridlocked government. CCS submitted its proposals for constitutional and sub-constitutional changes to the president and the congressional leadership in 1987. Neither the Republican nor Democratic parties responded to our report. In 1992, I entered the South Carolina presidential primary and lectured at schools from Haverford College outside Philadelphia to The Thomas Jefferson Society at UVA. In the year 2000, I entered the South Carolina presidential caucuses and engaged in civil disobedience by not complying with F. E. C. regulations. That campaign was covered by Molly Ivins in her syndicated column, Business Week, and other journals. The F. E. C. chose not to prosecute me.

I joined the Green Party in 2006, largely because of the Clinton-inspired abandonment of the middle class and the poor, along with the mass incarcerations and the increasing influence of foreign governments in America's politics. I am patriotic, being a veteran myself. My father fought the Nazis and was made and an Officer in the Order of the British Empire by His Majesty George VI, R. I., and my great grandfather was shot in 1864 defending the Union. I am active in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. I am active in progressive groups in South Carolina as well as the Green Party. I picket weekly with Women in Black and I am a member of tSouth Carolina Progressive Network, an organization made up of civil rights, labor, feminist, LGBT, anti-war, environmental, and similar groups. I am on the National Committee of the Green Party and have served on both the Finance and Fund-raising Committees. I am on the Steering Committee of the South Carolina Green Party. I recently won the South Carolina Green presidential caucus, sending five pledged delegates to the national convention in Houston, August 4-7. I am the only other nationally recognized presidential candidate besides Jill Stein. I support Jill but entered the Green Party presidential contest to discuss the need for constitutional and sub-constitutional structural changes to our government, as well as to discuss an original political philosophy that I have developed over the last half century.

Who gave money to this candidate?

Contributions

Total money raised: $7,295

Top contributors that gave money to support the candidate, by organization:

1

Employees of Baxter International

$2,500

2

Employees of Create-A-Pack Foods

$500

2

Employees of GT Excavation

$500

3

Employees of Blutide Marine Construction

$260

More information about contributions

By State:

Illinois 52.36%

Oregon 21.26%

South Carolina 15.92%

Wisconsin 10.47%

52.36%21.26%15.92%10.47%

By Size:

Large contributions (65.46%)

Small contributions (34.54%)

65.46%34.54%

By Type:

From organizations (0.00%)

From individuals (100.00%)

100.00%

Source: MapLight analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission.

Political Beliefs

My original political philosophy is based upon psychology rather than economics or any other objective variable such as gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or the like. My masters thesis, written in the 1960's, compared the personalities of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, using variables from The Authoritarian Personality, the classic work on the relationship of psychological variables to political ideology. My doctoral dissertation completed the authoritarian model by testing to see if the authoritarian traits described in the above work, when inverted, correlated on the other side of the ideological spectrum, thus permitting the development of a full-range political philosophy based upon subjective variables. I predicted that psychological correlates would become increasingly significant in determining political ideology. Indeed, the year 2000 was the first in which regular attendance at some form of religious service bypassed income as an indicator of voting preference. My dissertation, The Anti-Authoritarian Personality, was published in 1977 as No. 21 in the Hans Eysenck, Pergamon Press series on Experimental Psychology, Oxford, and sold throughout the world. It is referenced in WIKI under "Authoritarian Personality," Footnote 6.

I turned next to cognitive variables by "reading through" the German Idealists Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel as I studied their respective preferences for analytic (apples and apples) or synthetic (apples and oranges) relationships. Kant, of an analytic mind, labelled the equation 5 + 7 = 12 as synthetic because there were two integers on one side of the equation and one on the other. Hegel, of a synthetic mind, argued that the equation was analytic because all the integers were numbers. In a New York University Press publication entitled Relativism and the Natural Left (1984), I traced the development of the fission-fusion pattern in intellectual history in which the rationalist and skeptical schools, that included both the analytic and synthetic forms, transformed themselves into a single cognitive range that stretched from preferences for the analytic form to preferences for the snythetic form. Over time, I developed an original political philosophy and demonstrated the imbalances of cognitive forms in the American political system in a work entitled The Bias of Temperament in American Politics (2014). In short, my political theory reflects the Kantian notion of the Copernican Revolution in philosophy. The observer imposes meaning, and to understand ideology one must understand the cognitive preferences of the observer. I suggest in Bias that the American political system, along with its underpinnings in Abrahamic religious faiths as well as the English common law, strongly favors the analytic over the synthetic form. My political philosophy believes in the primacy of the Classical Dialectic over the Material Dialectic, the reintegration of psychology with philosophy after the experimental turn at the beginning of the twentieth century (Wundt), and the eventual reconciliation of the physiology of the brain, psychology, and ideology. We must recognize, and rebalance, the underlying cognitive as well as affective (authoritarian-to-anti-authoritarian) biases in the American political system. In short, I am of the psychological, or what I have sometimes labelled the natural, left, I having an abstract, essentially theoretical, mind. I see patterns. I prefer holistic analyses. I find the American political system to be largely based on arms-length, contractually-formed relationships, lobbyists requesting specific benefits from legislators and regulators, in return for political support, for example. Objective variables are still of considerable importance, of course, but I predict that the psychology of how individuals observe objective variables is supplanting ideologies based solely on the objective variables themselves. Again, I am of the psychological, or natural, left.